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This directory contains the f2c library packaged for use with g77 to configure
and build automatically (in principle!) as part of the top-level configure and
make steps.  This depends on the makefile and configure fragments in ../f.

Some small changes have been made to the f2c distributions of lib[IF]77 which
come from ftp@netlib.att.com:netlib/f2c and are maintained (excellently) by
David M. Gay <dmg@research.att.com>.  See the Notice files for copyright
information.  I'll try to get the changes rolled into the f2c distribution.

The packaging for auto-configuration was done by Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>.
Minor changes have been made by James Craig Burley <burley@gnu.ai.mit.edu>,
who probably broke things Dave had working.  :-)

Some key changes made by Burley:

-  f2c.h configured to default to padding unformatted direct reads
   (#define Pad_UDread), because that's the behavior most users
   expect.

-  f2c.h configured to default to always flushing after output so that
   ERR= and IOSTAT= report disk-full errors (assuming the underlying
   system library code does that correctly), again because that's the
   behavior most users expect (#define ALWAYS_FLUSH).
